Card Oddities

[Palatinus]

I recently noticed a card oddity in one of my Silver Surfer specials. On his Energy Projection special, both the AG and Silver Surfer name are blurry, but on closer inspection it appears they are spelled out in double fonts that don't overlap giving them a 3-D type blurry effect.  The Silver Surfer picture on this card is also fuzzy. Anyone else have something similar?

I have a few cards like that.

[Jack]

I recently noticed a card oddity in one of my Silver Surfer specials. On his Energy Projection special, both the AG and Silver Surfer name are blurry, but on closer inspection it appears they are spelled out in double fonts that don't overlap giving them a 3-D type blurry effect.  The Silver Surfer picture on this card is also fuzzy. Anyone else have something similar?

The first set is known to have some bad printing, mostly due to the texture of the card and the method they used to print. They were trying to put ink on a glossy surface, which doesn't quite work.

[Palatinus]

Yeah, but why would anyone expect a company whose primary source of income comes from the selling of cards which they print to be good at printing cards?  How did that work out for them in the end, bye-the-way?

[Nate Grey]

I recently noticed a card oddity in one of my Silver Surfer specials. On his Energy Projection special, both the AG and Silver Surfer name are blurry, but on closer inspection it appears they are spelled out in double fonts that don't overlap giving them a 3-D type blurry effect.  The Silver Surfer picture on this card is also fuzzy. Anyone else have something similar?

I have a few cards like that.

Do you remember which ones they were? I think I saw some other blurry cards in my collection so I'm curious if its certain cards or just random ones.

[Jack]

Been card shopping today, picked up a lot of oddities, I'll have pictures up soon.

IQ "Pink" Specials like

• Beast Brilliant Deduction - pink @ AS part of BEAST
• Henry Pym Yellowjacket - pink @ bottom-left corner of image
• Kingpin Crime Magnate
• Magneto Magnetic Devastation
• Spider-Man Science Whiz

Classic "Pink" cards like

• Superpatriot - pink dots on shoulder
• Psycho-Man Fear
• Thunderbolts Techno

"Yellow" cards like

• Bullseye Precision Shot
• Black Panther Jungle Savvy
• Kazar Jungle Savvy
• ROM/Turbo Double Shot - yellow on DOUBLE SHOT

Image starter deck "Moire-less"

• Grifter Bull's-Eye Shot - card has some dots, other is smooth gradient background
• Zealot Warrior Soul - card has some dots, other is smooth gradient background
• Correctly cut Spawn Finite Power

I was also able to pick up a card NOT listed. Marrow's Bone Snap. There is some yellowing, I'll post a picture of both versions.

[Jack]

Very hard to notice, it's a bit of yellowing on his arm, 3rd picture shows it much much better.

[DaGreatNameless]

I recently noticed a card oddity in one of my Silver Surfer specials. On his Energy Projection special, both the AG and Silver Surfer name are blurry, but on closer inspection it appears they are spelled out in double fonts that don't overlap giving them a 3-D type blurry effect.  The Silver Surfer picture on this card is also fuzzy. Anyone else have something similar?

I work as a screen printer so the double image is cause because they have to lay down colors twice to make them stand out so the other colors dont go through. sometimes a screen or the papers not properly lined up before printing. (not sure excatly how they printed their cards so I can't tell ya for sure which one). The silver cards from powersurge I believe are probally just areas not hit enough times with the ink which could be from them printing the colors outta order (laying down the white after the black ink would allow the black to show through turning it grey). Since working in a print shop and getting back into these cards I tend to find at least one flawed card outta ten but they are usally not big errors that are to odvious.

[BigBadHarve]

For the image oddities - the moire-less background is actually deliberate. It's how you can tell the starter version from the booster version.  They differentiated the two - the same applies for the Missions. If you notice, any Shattered Image mission card you pull from a booster pack has a deeper purple background, where the starter version is noticeably paler.

Obviously the booster versions are more rare.

-BBH

[Demacus]

As a collector, I didn't bother gathering the "ink splotchy" cards, as they were simply machine malfunction or improper printing.  I DID however gather real printing variables. 

Azreal with and without the Trademark line, The Infestation Incident with the same issue. 

Longshot's Roll with the Punches, in which the first line either ends with the number 1 or the word "any." 

Sorceress Slam from Scarlet Witch, I have both icons. 

The miss-coded Tessa for the Hellfire Club, 2 copies of Lillandra, though without my collection in front of me, I forget what was different about those.

There was also something wrong with M.O.D.O.K.  One from the starter had something different from the one in the booster.  I could be thinking of the lvl 4 Intellect Powercard with M.O.D.O.K. pictured on it just as easily.

[gameplan.exe]

As a collector, I didn't bother gathering the "ink splotchy" cards, as they were simply machine malfunction or improper printing.  I DID however gather real printing variables. 

Azreal with and without the Trademark line, The Infestation Incident with the same issue. 

Longshot's Roll with the Punches, in which the first line either ends with the number 1 or the word "any." 

Sorceress Slam from Scarlet Witch, I have both icons. 

The miss-coded Tessa for the Hellfire Club, 2 copies of Lillandra, though without my collection in front of me, I forget what was different about those.

There was also something wrong with M.O.D.O.K.  One from the starter had something different from the one in the booster.  I could be thinking of the lvl 4 Intellect Powercard with M.O.D.O.K. pictured on it just as easily.

The text on the Lillandra variant says, "Sh'iar" instead of the correct, "Shi'ar"

[Demacus]

THAT was it!  Thank you.    Any idea what I was reffering to with the M.O.D.O.K. refference?  lol

[gameplan.exe]

THAT was it!  Thank you.    Any idea what I was reffering to with the M.O.D.O.K. refference?  lol

sorry, no. I only really knew about the Shi'ar card because I have them both. I don't, however, have Hydra and I only have 2 M.O.D.O.K. Power cards and they're (seemingly) identical 

[Demacus]

I'll have to go hunting... I remember that when I found out there was a difference I made it a mission to buy starters until I pulled that particular card... I know I eventually did, but I forget what was special about it.

Might have been one of those cards that was accidentally exclusive to the starters.

[Kal-el]

I didn't think there was anything wrong with the MODOK. As far as I knew, there were only six misprints: Longshot, Scarlet Witch, Azrael, Sebastian Shaw, Tess and Lilandra.

I'd be interested to hear about any MODOK differences.

[Jack]

There might be some differences between the starters and the boosters, but really only minor differences. For example, the Zealot card I posted above, starters had the dotted pattern and the boosters had the smooth gradient (or vice versa, I can't remember). Same with the Shattered Image missions, the starters had a different hue compared to the boosters (on the back of the card).

The 6 completely different cards were mentioned by Kal-el, actual typos or text that was left off completely. The rest were just errors in printing. The ones I posted above were found on many cards. There are also some that were in extremely limited quantities and aren't really considered errors because it could just be one or two cards (and not 40%+ of the entire print).